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Tuesday 11 March 2014

Payments and patronage in East Devon

The ways of providing and withholding rewards are many and various...

SECTION 106 FUNDING:

There is the question of how developers get planning applications through:
Futures Forum: 'Planning gain' - the replacement for S106 cash from developers - the Community Infrastructure Levy - but is it still 'bribery' by a different name?

The Leader of the District Council has recently stated that
Development as you know is the major source of funding for socially desirable projects via S106 or a unilateral undertaking.

... with a comment that
The logic of Cllr Diviani’s disingenuous reply is that “socially desirable” projects can only be afforded at the cost of covering the District in concrete.

http://www.claire-wright.org/index.php/post/cllr_paul_divianis_response_on_funding_comments_wrangle

INDEPENDENT COUNCILLORS:

There has been a lot of pressure on independents of late:
Futures Forum: "Independents, Independents, Independents."
Futures Forum: Independent Councillors - independent voices

The question has arisen whether the District Council has been deliberately withholding funding from Ottery St Mary -because they have two independent Councillors:
http://www.claire-wright.org/index.php/post/independent_councillors_mean_death_knell_for_funding_application
Leader of Council Paul Diviani replies to Councillor Claire Wright – you need development to keep car parking charges from rising! | Sidmouth Independent News

BROWNGATE:

Meanwhile, there is the issue of how far a leading District Councillor exercised influence:
EDDC, Brown and EDBF: the position so far ….. | Sidmouth Independent News
Byzantium | Sidmouth Independent News
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